She was Gong Li, a famous animator who would be called the Dawn of Chinese Animation in the future!
Some years later, she would launch a movement to reject making comics in a capital-run and studio-run environment. The campaign would return the copyright to the comic artists, and give aesthetics to comic lovers. The campaign was huge and won the support of comic lovers all over the world.
The movement was quite successful and influential.
The same year, countless excellent comic artists emerged in China, and the stagnant comic book industry ushered in a rebirth. That year was also called the first year of Chinese comics.
When Gong Li hung up the phone, she was still a little confused. Did Shen Xi just use reverse psychology on her?
However, even if it was reverse psychology, she was still happy.
The little beauty's art style simply ticked all the boxes. She was just too good!
After Shen Xi talked to Gong Li, she called Yuan Yu. "Brother, I found a comic artist called Gong Li. She'll report to the company tomorrow."
Then, she briefly talked to him about the requirements needed to be the largest online comic platform in China, and give comic artists a free and equal creative environment.
In the comic industry, there would be a lot on the plate once the comic started to take off. There was publishing, games, animation, film and television, and even spin-offs. The benefits were plenty of benefits.
Yuan Yu had a headache. "Are you planning to monopolize all the entertainment industries?"
Shen Xi said, "You can leave Gong Li to her own devices. Let her do whatever she wants, and give her anything she wants too. You don't have to worry about anything else."
Yuan Yu. "You just met her. Why do you trust her so much?"
Shen Xi smiled. "If you use a person, don't suspect them."
Yuan Yu treated her as a treasure. With his position as a major shareholder, he listened to her. What else could he do? "Okay, I'll take care of it. You can rest assured!"
"Brother, do you remember that I told you about this person called Yu Yuanxi in my school? I might bring him to the company in the near future. It's for that movie that I mentioned before."
"Don't rush. The audition for the film's lead role is next month!"
"Thank you."
"I'm your brother. Stop being so courteous with me."
Shen Xi hung up the phone, got off the bus, and returned home. The first thing she did was run and climb the wall.
A thick layer of snow had fallen in the big boss's yard. The plum blossoms were already about to bloom, and the smell had gotten stronger.
The door to the living room was closed and the gate was locked.
He was not at home.
Shen Xi ran down and put down her schoolbag, and began to roll snowballs in the yard.
The snow had not stopped and continued to fall all afternoon, but it did not reach her calf. She soon rolled a big, round snowball.
There were no professional snow carving tools at home, so she took her art knives and scrapers.
Even without looking at the drawing, she just had to close her eyes to see what he looked like in front of her.
Shen Xi's hands were deft and dexterous like the hands of God, flying and carving. In less than an hour, the work was completed.
The 'Li Yuan' in front of her did not have the cold and icy appearance of the past. Even if he smiled, it was fleeting and hard to capture.
The man's features were delicate and three-dimensional. When he smiled, it was devastatingly attractive, and whoever saw it was bound to feel happy.
Shen Xi squatted in front of 'him', holding her chin to admire her masterpiece and smiling like a little fool. No one knew what went in her mind, but her small hand patted 'his' head as she mumbled to herself, "See, I told you that you look much better when you smile."


In her past life, Shen Xi always longed for love and validation from her parents, members of the wealthy Su family. Unfortunately, the attention that she yearned for was stolen by the family’s fake heiress – her elder sister, Su Ruowan. 
As a result of Su Ruowan’s evil plans, Shen Xi was crippled, disfigured and eventually died of leukemia. However, in a surprising turn of events, Shen Xi was reborn. Returned to the time when she was a seventeen-year-old teenager, she’ll set things right and get her revenge against the Su family. 


"Kodansha Comics?"
Meng Fan didn't know much Japanese, but he could read most of the words on the business card Goro Takahashi gave him. Mr. Takahashi was an editor at Kodansha Comics. Given the style of the business card, he wasn't an average editor either.
This was a pleasant surprise for Meng Fan!
Before and after he was reborn, his sisters sponsored him with many gifts on this trip. Before the rebirth, he was most interested in CV concerts and "meet and greets." Now, he was more interested in visiting Shueisha Comics and meeting the comic artist Eiichiro Oda.
Of course, before the rebirth, he also loved manga and would have liked to visit Shueisha Comics and meet Eiichiro Oda. The visit, however, would just have been a regular visit.
Now, the purpose of his visit would be different.
If he was rewriting his life, what would he need?
Manga would undoubtedly be a big part of his new life!
He didn't realize one of the hostages was an editor, and a senior one at that, from a comics publisher. This was fantastic news for Meng Fan.
Perhaps it was Good Luck +1 in effect? It was a big coincidence.
Kodansha Comics was one of Japan's three largest comic publishers. The other two are Shueisha Comics and Shogakukan Comics. Together, the three manga publishers are known as the Gosanke.
Most of the Japanese comics popular with fans worldwide came from these three manga publishers.
Kodansha Comics is known as an advancing giant in the industry.
The publisher with the longest history, Kodansha Comics, is regarded as the boss of publishers (not just comics) in Japan. It has serialized "Attack on Titan,""GetBackers,""Fairy Tail,""Initial D,""Legend of the Dragon's Son,""Vagabond,""Ghost in the Shell,""The Three-Eyed One,""SM,""Card Captor,""The Tales of Genji,""Parasyte," and other well-known mangas.
Shogakukan Comics is a publisher known for comics for kids and teens.
As one of the largest comprehensive publishers in Japan, Shogakukan Comics focused on elementary school students as its audience early on. Based on the names of its comics, it's obvious that it has published many children's classics, some of which had even mesmerized grown ups, including: "Case Closed,""Pokémon,""Doraemon,""Urusei Yatsura,""Ranma ½,""Inuyasha," and many more.
Shueisha Comics is a publisher with some of the most talented comic artists in the industry.
Shueisha Comics publishes many comic magazines for teens, the most well-known of which is Weekly Shōnen Jump, which has the highest circulation in Japan's serialized comics. The magazine has released plenty of hits such as "One Piece,""Naruto,""Bleach,""Gin Tama,""Dragon Ball,""Yu-Gi-Oh!""Saint Seiya,""Slam Dunk,""Chibi Maruko-chan,""Food Wars!" and so on.
Other comic houses within Shueisha Comics have released legendary comics including: "To Love Ru,""One Punch Man,""Tokyo Ghoul,""The Prince of Tennis,""NANA," and more.
The number of comic classics published and serialized by Shueisha Comics is simply countless.
Shueisha Comics was founded last among the three legendary publishers. In the beginning, it was an entertainment magazine under Shogakukan Comics; now, it holds its own in the industry.
Most comic artists hope to have a chance to serialize their work in a Shueisha Comics magazine, including many Chinese comic artists, Meng Fan among them. This is true despite the shrinking comics market in Japan in recent years.　　
This is just like how, for most actors, their dream is to be a movie star in Hollywood — including most Chinese actors such as Meng Caiwei — even though China is now the world's largest movie market.
That's not to say that without being serialized in Japan or entering Hollywood, one would give up on the Chinese market.
Meng Fan put away the business card, his face showing happiness. He smiled at Goro Takahashi. "To be honest, I'm a college student majoring in comics. I actually have a series right now. One of my goals for this trip has to do with comics. I can't believe I get to meet one of the trailblazers of the industry today, I'm so honored."
Goro Takahashi looked surprised after he heard the translation from En'en's dad. The reason he introduced himself: young people like Meng Fan were usually comic fans, so he figured maybe he could thank Meng Fan in this way. He had no idea Meng Fan was studying comics and a comic artist as well.
After Goro Takahashi shook hands again with Meng Fan, he said, "M-san, please, allow me to take you on a tour of Kodansha Comics." 
"Absolutely. It would be my honor."
The two of them exchanged their contact information and made a date to meet again.
As he walked out, Meng Fan received at least fifty more business cards!
There were maybe even more than fifty, as they all came from the passengers on the flight, mixed in with numbers from several flight attendants.
While people knew it was unlikely Meng Fan would keep in touch with them, they clamored to leave him their contact information. It wasn't because they wanted to copy others, they just really wanted to befriend a legendary person like Meng Fan.
Based on the names on the business cards, most of them were Japanese, some were expats in Japan, and a few were Chinese. It was not an exaggeration to say that if Meng Fan had thick skin, he could eat and play for free for the next three to six months in Japan. He would have a great time too, since people traveling from Singapore to Japan were usually pretty successful.
Just like En'en's dad, after Meng Fan chatted with him after they got in the car leaving the airport, he learned the older man dealt in real estate, red wine, and soy sauce, but he wasn't a real estate developer.
The biggest coincidence was when Meng Fan realized they were from Hangzhou, too. He almost swore when he heard their home was near his school!
It was a good thing they weren't from the same district, just a nearby one; otherwise, it would be too much of a coincidence. 
When En'en learned Meng Fan studied near her house, she was even more excited. She wanted to go back to China with him, leaving her parents chagrined.
When their car entered the financial district of Otemachi, it stopped briefly at the Aman Kyoto Hotel, part of Otemachi-Tower.
Meng Fan and En'en made sure to meet again, then he left under En'en's reluctant gaze, carrying his suitcase.
The Aman Kyoto Hotel wasn't an entire building; it was in fact located on the top six floors of the Otemachi-Tower. The hotel lobby was on the 33rd floor, making the hotel rooms even higher. Because of this, the Aman Kyoto Hotel was known as "a luxury above the city."
As soon as Meng Fan entered the elevator, his phone rang. It was from Wu Tong.
"Are you in Japan?"
"Yes, I just got to the hotel."
"How long are you staying?"
"Two or three days?"
"You're not coming back earlier?"
"If I got everything done with the manga, I would go back earlier. Why, you miss me or worry about me?"
"So you do know!"
Wu Tong did sound a little displeased, but it was mostly worrying. Then she said, "Seventh Bro is taking his team to Kyoto today. When he gets there, you can head out and have him follow you, or have someone follow you."


To reward Meng Fan for his bravery before his heroic death, the cosmos rewarded him with a 'system', sending him back in time to three months ago, alive.

After two days of cultivation, the surface of the rainbow bridge became fluffy, like colorful clouds, spreading from one end of the rainbow to the other of the rainbow. No wonder little Muli and other kids liked it so much. It was a real treat to slide down the rainbow bridge in a sled made by the carpenter beaver.
But every time they played on the rainbow bridge, there would always be a few flying bird knights around them to make sure that they would not fall down from the bridge. At the same time, they also had to watch out for the extreme fans, and prevent some criminals from damaging the bridge.
In just two days, they discovered some new types of criminals, one was the arsonist and the other was the rainbow bug.
Arsonists were a group of people, who loved to set things on fires, and their favorite target was the rainbow bridge. For them, to kill a rainbow bridge was the ultimate glory. However, those fluffy cotton-like things on the surface of the rainbow bridge were very easy to burn, so the fast-handed Wang absolutely forbade having any fire around the rainbow bridge.
Zhou Yu had seen an arsonist in the past, to tell the truth, with the heavy eye bags and a gloomy appearance, the one he saw looked like L in Death Note. However, this guy, while laughing like a demon, rushed forward with a Molotov cocktail, completely ignored the guards of Luhua village, as if he despised them completely.
Even Firefly and the flying bird knights that patrolled the park, would not let this kind of criminal do whatever he liked, let alone the fast-handed Wang, who always kept his eyes on the rainbow bridge.
So, brother L was severely beaten, and the Molotov cocktail, that he had tried his best to throw, was also easily caught by the flying bird knight, without causing any damage to the rainbow bridge. Eventually, he was sent to prison for rehabilitation. Zhou Yu was also curious if he would be converted into a talented villager. For each new type of criminal, the first one to be reformed had a high probability of obtaining talents. In the future, the same type of criminals would be mostly ordinary villagers.
The rainbow bug, which liked to sneak into the village, was harder to deal with than the reckless arsonists. This nearly transparent insect was extremely difficult to spot, and only made sounds when it moved, and if people did not pay attention to listen to the sound, they could not even hear it.
After breaking through the defense, it would hide in the thick shell of the rainbow bridge and start munching it like eating marshmallows. Although the body of the rainbow bug would have color after eating the colorful cloud silk, in the rainbow bridge, which was also very colorful, it became the best protective color, so it would take people a lot of effort to find them.
To prevent and control the rainbow bugs, the first line of defense was to add an outbuilding called the Radar Room to the Ying Xiu Comic Studio. The radar room would produce two radar soldiers that would guard at either end of the rainbow bridge.
Radar soldiers looked very funny. They were carrying something on their backs that looked like huge morning glory flowers, and when listening to the movement, their movement would be very slow. And when the radar soldiers appeared, the rainbow bug would immediately stop moving, their little hearts would beat rapidly, and they would be sweating all over the place when the radar soldiers were examining the bridge.
If they were unlucky, they would be caught on the spot. Of course, there were also some that successfully got away with the check. Then they would be like living in a paradise, keeping eating until they could no longer eat anymore.
Although the fast-handed Wang often patrolled the rainbow bridge and acted as the second line of defense, the probability of finding one bug would be very low at this point.
Whatever they were planting, pests were inevitable. The good news was that the rainbow bug had a very small belly, so as long as they did not invade on a large scale, it would not do much damage to the bridge. Compared to an arsonist's damage, this kind of damage was almost nothing.
On the third day, the fast-handed Wang said that the rainbow bridge was officially mature. However, Zhou Yu could not see any differences, because the rainbow bridge was no different from yesterday.
At this time, the fast-handed Wang pointed to the new creatures, the beautiful butterfly on the rainbow bridge and said, "that is the rainbow butterfly. When it appears, it is a sign of full maturity of the colorful cloud silk. It means that we can start to collect the colorful cloud silk."
The rainbow butterfly was an evolutionary form of the rainbow bug. Because of their beautiful appearances, they were the most popular product in the ACG world. There were many items that could be made if there was an item craftsman in the village. Among the jewelry items, the top-quality item, the Butterfly Feather Crown's main material was the rainbow butterfly.
That was to say, that these rainbow butterflies could be captured and sold directly to the wandering merchants of the ACG world or stored as raw materials in the warehouse, so they could be used to train the Item Craftsman in the future.
After hearing the introduction of the rainbow butterfly, Zhou Yu asked curiously, "since the rainbow butterfly is so good, why do you want to stop the rainbow bug?"
"The rainbow bug's food is the colorful cloud silk, and if too much of it is consumed, the quality of the comic will deteriorate. It only makes sense to keep a few rainbow butterflies in innocuous conditions. They can be regarded as the by-product of making the rainbow brocade, but they should not be the main product."
After all, the fast-handed Wang was a comic artist, the comic was something that was much more sacred to him, so he would not allow himself to raise bugs. In the past, after having the comic artists, some management companies were also blinded by the profits that were brought by the rainbow butterfly. They asked the artists not to draw comics anymore, but use all the rainbow bridges to feed rainbow bugs. In the end, the management companies indeed got a large number of rainbow butterflies, but the price was that the artist could no longer produce rainbow seeds anymore. It would only waste the very rare fruit of creativity.
Of course, Zhou Yu would not make such a stupid mistake, after all, for him, making a good comic was the most important thing.
Then, the job in the afternoon was to catch these rainbow butterflies.
The fast-handed Wang was harvesting the colorful cloud silk a little by little with the slik harvesting workers. This was something that Zhou Yu could not help, because the process of harvesting silk was very strict, Zhou Yu, who had a pair of big hands, would damage the colorful cloud silk, and then the quality of the comic would be declined.
So it only left with the job of catching butterflies.
Rainbow butterflies were easy to recognize, without the rainbow bridge as a shelter, they could be easily seen no matter where they hid. Quickly distributing a butterfly net to each one of his kids, then sitting on the back of the flying bird knight's mount, they began to chase those rainbow butterflies in the air, and they even had a competition about who caught the most butterflies.
The prize of the competition, however, was from Zhou Yu. Recently, he had just gotten A Recycling Jar from the chubby dragon's treasure bowl. It doesn't sound like an interesting item, but it could swallow anything useless and spit it out Moe Coins.
But Zhou Yu did not really need it, because he already had a warehouse where he could store many items. At the moment, although some items he could not use, he did not consider them useless, who knows he might need them in the future. Besides, it was just a small amount of coins, he was not interested in it.
However, as soon as the little Firefly saw the Jar, her eyes were instantly lit up. She had long wanted to get the recycling Jar from her old man, but she had no chance. When little Muli proposed to the recycling Jar as the prize, Zhou Yu immediately understood that it must be Firefly, this bratty girl, who incited little Muli to say it.
Fine, you can have the jar, as long as you win the competition.


Zhou Yu, a reclusive otaku, who did not like to go out of his house, was one day forced out of his house by a series of unexpected events.
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It was the 3rd month of Tanatswa's unemployment and things weren't looking up for him. He had surfed the web for companies that would put to use his programming skills, even submitting his CV to businesses that didn't seem like they would need an IT person, but alas, his efforts were met with no responses and harsh berating from his mother. He had been called lazy even though he dedicated the entire day to emailing more than 300 companies. Things were tough but his parental figure's scolding didn't make it easier. Some people got jobs through nepotism, knowing who is who in the market, and the fact that' that piece of networking advantage was lacking in his arsenal of talents, made him feel seriously fucked. 



Even when he did get replies and went for interviews, it almost always seemed as if for some reason, he didn't meet their requirements. Tanatswa took his time to learn more web development frameworks and useful tools like Angular.js, Bootstrap and even advanced forms of PHP. He believed that he could impress a potential employer if he closed the gap of knowledge he had concerning things he needed to know as a developer. The growth was ever so slightly an improvement that made him more competent and capable of handling much more complex software projects, but alas, even that effort didn't pay off. This was undoubtedly a dark time for this young man's life.

 

During this period of his life, Tanatswa tried to find outlets to make money, even returning to the skill sets he had given up on to pursue his education. Though, if was being completely honest with himself, he had barely made it through university. He graduated with a 3rd class degree and finally cleared his tuition debt. He wasn't one to keep debts and liked to owe no one anything, but realized that most of the business tycoons he had read about didn't pay their taxes and owed a lot of money to the government. This made him consider whether or not he felt good about being a debt free person who is also broke and unemployed. The thought would make him feel like shit and he would avert his mind onto other matters, matters like getting back to drawing his comic and entering it for an online contest or pursuing a youtube channel that never really experienced any growth. 



Tanatswa had liked art and also partly chose a computer science program because of his interest in game design and the marvelous art that was accompanied with video games. His art skills were rusty but he knew that with a little effort he could get back into it and level up in the skill chain. Apart from farming the coding knowledge on the internet, he would now dedicate his time to improving his gaming skills and killing time with anime youtubers. This was rather a pathetic lifestyle as compared to the expectations that society expected from someone like him.  

 

Tanatswa went through a gradual slump in his life, but was neither an overt trouble maker and got along with most people, exhibiting manners and respect towards people of all walks in life. However, this wasn't always the case for people who he found annoying or deemed insufferable. The pool of friends that this young man had was small and even he didn't believe that he had anyone he would classify to be his best friend. Whenever he felt depressed or wanted to have a discussion about a show he liked, he didn't have anyone to really indulge him in an interesting conversation. Even if he couldn't do it face to face with someone, the online options weren't always to his liking. Going on forums or even the discord servers to find someone like minded was as tasking as getting a job. 



Sometimes the fun people were there, but their appearance was rare and having to filter through the trolls, memers and the perverts who could not get into intellectual discussions peeved him a lot. He eventually got frustrated and barely used any of those platforms. Facebook, twitter and even Instagram got boring for him. Even youtube slowly began to lose its sparkle. Shows that seemed to have their shine became repetitive and he no longer saw any value in consuming their content. This would propel him to search for other content creators, but when he would find their stuff, after a while he would get bored. The young man felt bewildered by this gradual decline in interest and worried about his mood swings.

 

After a while, Tanatswa had two websites up, one as a web application and another as just a normal site. He thought that maybe due to a lack of a portfolio that maybe he had been side lined from job opportunities because of that and decided to send a link of his work included to his attached CV. This happened at the same time as he was about to finish drawing his comic which he was going to submit to a contest. He was thinking that if things were not going to work out on this Japanese site he would take his material to either webtoons or tapastic. He was now in his 5th month of unemployment and he really wanted his efforts to pay off. As he expected, the inclusion of his finished works made a difference and he got called for just 2 interviews. However, this didn't go as he expected.

 

At interview number one, the tall 6 feet tall, ebony skinned, skinny Tanatswa, came in to an office that was at the outskirts of town. He was well dressed, and looked super dashing in his light grey suit, beige shirt and black tie, accompanied with crimson shoes. He didn't have the broad shoulders to finesse his appearance but at least the tailor had made a suit that matched his body type. He walked into the building that looked more like a home that was being repurposed to be a working environment. There the young man went through the process of telling the secretary that he had an appointment with the head of IT there. The woman on the desk who had a nice face but a body that was in desperate need of exercise, made a phone call. Tanatswa waited and darted his eyes everywhere. 



The place looked kind of interesting and there were a lot of certification frames placed all over the wall and as always, the picture of the president of the country was on the wall. The place looked homely, but eventually, Tanatswa's time for his face to face with his potential employer was about to begin. A stocky man who was light skinned, wearing a striped shirt and black trousseaus called for him. Tanatswa followed the man's lead and meet him in his office. There Tanatswa was grilled about his intentions for working at the company, and the shock of his life came from when he got to see how his 2 websites looked on the man's device. The employer had a Mac desktop and its screen dimensions were extremely wide and everything he worked looked different on it. Some of the icons were off and looked like shit.



 Tanatswa opted for the man to check how the website looked on his phone and laptop, lucky for him, the man gave it a shot despite getting an immediate negative impression from the desktop orientation of his websites on his Mac. The websites looked fine on the other devices, but the fact that he had missed one mark had messed his chances. Finally they gave him an aptitude test to see whether or not he could demonstrate real coding capabilities. 



Tanatswa was given a website that was done by some company that wanted it revamped, but the source code seemed like an abomination. It was well commented but it was clearly a template that was reworked by some tasteless developer who left a mess. It was chore to go through and even more of a struggle to find all ids and classes used for everything. Going through the mess took a while and soon enough, his time limit was over. The end result was that they would assess his performance and give him a call. A week passed and he never got a call and the other interview he went for turned out to be a disaster. This was only the beginning to a perpetual list of misfortunes.

 

After Tanatswa had submitted his comic and got his results after 2 months of waiting, he had mixed feelings about the results. The judges essentially stated that he had the best story out of all the contests but his art was in the lower bracket of their score. Due to this uneven scoring, he didn't place really high in the ranking but he got an honourable mention. This was the first time he was acknowledged for his talents by an organisation and he felt a bit happy, but this wasn't really the result he desired. If he had won, he would have claimed the prize money and moved out to pursue his comic as a published author serializing in their magazine, but even if that did not happen, at least he got consolation that he had writing talent. Tanatswa began to dabble into art tutorials online at the same time doing chores for his mom, who seemed to only escalate he indignation towards the unemployed youth. 



Tanatswa's goals had shifted and he now wanted to become a comic artist instead of dedicating his time towards finding employment where employers didn't seem to want him. This change in what he wanted to pursue fuelled him with fire and he practiced stuff like foreshortening, figure drawing and complex angles of dynamic poses. Sometimes the drawings would come out well, but for the most part it was a struggle. Tanatswa began to wonder whether or not he would ever get as good as the artists he idolized and wondered whether or not he should team up with someone really talented to draw in his stead, however, the young man wanted to make this happen through his own merit. He finally entered another contest but this time, he was unlucky.

 

With the popularity of the prior contest a behemoth of pro artists were attracted to the upcoming one and entered it. His art had improved and his story was plausible but compared to the elite talent that had joined in, his work paled in comparison. Deep down inside he envied them and wished these pro god tier artists would have entered something else so that the rookies could get a chance to shine, but nevertheless, his final chance was taken from him and he was left depressed. Tanatswa thought about the webtoon and tapastic options but the only way to make it on their platforms was to have a consistent release schedule of work and also to become a featured artist on their platform. Featured artists would get paid plus with the promotion from their site, a creator could leverage the traffic drawn to them by opting for a *******, but it took him forever to get even one issue out and his mother seemed tired of supporting a bum like him. Thus he would have to be sent to the village and subsist on farm life or live with his poor uncle in the worst possible part of the country. 



The gamble had not paid off and he was unemployed, a failed comic artist and a failed developer. Eventually, drawing itself became a painful experience. The young man turned to porn, masturbating 3 or even 5 times a day, sometimes he would go on those dating websites which he knew were a waste of time because 95% of the user base were men and the supposed sexy women who wanted to get laid were actually bots posing as actual people. This morbid catharsis made him laugh inside but also made him feel like shit. He was 23 years old and feeling like a loser, but he always made a point of hiding that side of him. Tanatswa never liked wallowing in misery and showing the world that he is sad. Whenever he had the chance, he would always dress up and get fancy hair cuts that made him look cool and dashing, hiding his broke appearance, but that was it, it was all just an appearance. He pretended to be okay, dressed up nice and faked a smile, but was really dealing with depression. He reflected on his life and even began to associate his lack of success as to why he never really had luck with women. He had never gotten laid and he was already 23 years old. 



The closest thing to anything sexual he had gotten were lap dances and really arousing grinding from women who probably had to sit on top of at least 40 random crotches of men in a night. This was mainly a means to deal with his sexual frustration, but at those clubs that he did go to, even married men or guys who had girlfriends would get lap dances, grabbing women's asses and doing unholy things with them that they wouldn't even consider with their significant other.


 Tanatswa believed that he wouldn't have had to come to such a place if he had a girlfriend and probably wouldn't even do it for fear of being unfaithful, but seeing all the alpha males getting lap dances, fucking side hoes at the same time having a girlfriend or wife,  gave him a slight paradigm shift. Being a decent human being didn't matter; all he needed was power, fortune and luck! It became clear to him that he was competing in this world at a handicap and needed a boost. However nothing relieved him from his suffering.


A full year had passed and he was now destined to continue his existence at either his uncle's decrepit living hell hole or at the village to become a farm boy. Tanatswa no longer enjoyed drawing, programming, watching television or even waking up. He got interested for a while in music production, exhausting more than a 100 tutorials and even made a few decent bangers, but then after  some research he realized how cut throat it would be for him to even make it in that scene. At that point he was just throwing darts into the air and hoping that something would just stick. He was wasting time, caught in morbid thoughts and drowning himself in some doom and funeral metal to wallow in his misery. The music gig didn't work out, even the acting gig he tried bombed badly. Everything seemed hard and all he was good at was failing. 




Tanatswa sat on his bed and cursed, "Fuck the world, fuck it, fuck it all!" He looked at the ceiling and darted to the left side of his bed which had a pile of tissues that were covered in the semen of his 6 masturbation sessions. It dawned at him that he was nothing but a piece of shit human being and that he wanted to die.  After all he had done throughout his life he had decided that there was one thing he had to succeed at doing. Ending his life!

A young man struggles with unemployment, failed dreams and overall becoming a useless member in society and decides to kill himself. Upon seeking this method of death, he encounters a being from the alternative realm who gives him an option of starting his life over from scratch, from level 1 on his planet. This gives him the chance to finally carve out a path for himself that he could never do on earth.




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After searching for the profile and finding it, Miyeon clicked on the recent post by the account 'Taejoonie'.

Under the picture of Taejoon posing with a sad smile— which managed to tug at many people's heartstrings— a caption was there.

"Don't be mean to my Yeonnie Noona," Miyeon read the caption aloud, disbelieving the content. 

Her eyes widened and a gasp left her mouth. She had to check the content of the caption twice in order to let that sink into her.

"What the hell is wrong with that brat!? Yeonnie!? Noona!? When did that brat start to call me something as bone-chilling as this!?" she exclaimed.

Scrolling through the comments, Miyeon wanted to curse at Taejoon for his senseless comment, and this confirmed her suspicion of him lacking in IQ. If that was not case, then it was different him intending to create trouble for her.

"Is Yeonnie the one he appeared in scandal with?"

"That certainly must be her."


"Did you all notice that this is the first time Oppa tried to clear up the scandal? With all other scandals, he didn't even bother."

"Is there a hidden meaning behind this?"

"Is Joonie Oppa trying to protect her?"

"He even has a cute pet name for her."

"Nooo! Our Oppa belongs to Jaehee Unnie."

"Yeah! Taehee is the best ship!"

"Definitely, this Yeonnie can't ruin this ship!"

"Stop getting in between of Oppa and Unnie, Yeonnie."

"But guys, don't you think we should respect Taejoon Oppa's choice?"

"True. If Joonie likes it, we can permit it."

"Even if Yeonnie is not beautiful, it's alright as long Joonie loves her."

"I don't want to see my Oppa sad, so I'll allow it."

"Even if you allow me to be, I reject, absolutely reject your Oppa," Miyeon stated.

"Hold on! If she is the artist for the comic and Joonie Oppa is her boyfriend, does that mean underhanded methods were used?"

"Why didn't I think of this! That could be the case since many famous artists couldn't get in but a unfamiliar one like her could."

"Does that mean she seduced our Taejoon Oppa for this?"

"Do I need to seduce someone when I got pure talent for this?" Miyeon rolled her eyes.

"That means she's playing with our innocent Joonie."

"When was that brat even innocent? He started watching porn back in grade school." Miyeon scoffed.

"Get away from our Joonie Oppa, you gold-digger."

"Yeah, even if you latch onto him, we won't like your comics."

"True, it's horrible how these days people can easily obtain things by selling their body immorally and playing with others' feelings."

"Night Entertainment be fair about it."

"I was right. Taehee is the best."

"I think the art for the comic is nice. It's quite detailed and matches the theme."

"Are you hired by that gold-digger?"

"I can't believe that slut started taking such steps now!"

"Get lost! You can go and praise her! We don't need your opinion."

"Our Oppa is more important that some comic book."

"I don't want our Oppa to be heartbroken."

"DM me those who wants to take steps for keeping the gold-digger away. We can come up with a plan together."

"Yeah, I'll do that."

"Me too." 


Shivers ran down Miyeon's back as she saw the message, and creative thoughts on about what horrendous things the fans would do to her vividly ran through her mind.


"I never knew that a fandom could be this scary. Why would anyone ever want to get into a scandal with an artist?"

When Min Soobin had disappeared from her life, Miyeon found herself being heartbroken and betrayed.

But that did not pose as a problem to her later on since she had moved on from him.

However, years later, when she was leading a satisfactory life without many problems in it, both of their paths crosses again. 

Miyeon certainly was displeased by that!

Her peaceful life gets turned upside down due to that, and in addition to Lee Minjae— the troublemaker who embarrassed her throughout the highschool— Miyeon cursed at the whoever turned her life to be like that! 

She wanted that peace back again!

What? 

Min Soobin— the CEO of the top conglomerate— wanted to chase after her?

Lee Minjae— who was known for his reputation as a play boy— also wanted to chase after her? 

What the hell was happening? How in the hell was she supposed to marry a normal man if both of them were back of her?

Once again, she cursed the one who caused her life to be like that!

"This is not what I want!" Miyeon cried, holding back her tears of frustrations.

Along with that came the hidden secrets of the past, stalkers, and much more trouble! 

Miyeon's peaceful life no longer existed to her dismay!

Pusheen is a female cartoon cat who is the subject of codmic strips and sticker sets on Facebook. Pusheen was created in 2010 by Claire Belton and Andrew Duff for a comic strip on their website, Everyday Cute.

On the official Pusheen website Pusheen is described as being a female domestic shorthair which is grey and tabby. The original comic strip series included characters modeled after Belton, Duff, their dog named Care, and Pusheen, a chubby grey tabby cat based on Belton's cat that now lives with her parents in Oregon. Pusheen's name stems from the word puisín, which means kitten in Irish. Pusheen is sometimes seen with her sister, Stormy. Occasionally Pusheen and Stormy are drawn in different themes, such as Pusheenasarus Rex, where Pusheen is a dinosaur and Stormy is in a dinosaur egg.

Pusheen has become well known for appearing in Sticker sets on Facebook, which are images that can be attached to personal messages or comments. The feature, including a set of Pusheen stickers, was introduced to iOS in April 2013, and added to the main website in July of the same year. In an article for PC Magazine on emoji and unicode, Sascha Segan referred to Pusheen as Facebook's "proprietary emoji", being used as a form of Vendor lock-in.

In April 2017, the Pusheen Corporation acquired office space in the Park Ridge suburb of Chicago. The offices are used as a workspace for artists and photographers.

Pusheen is an example of the popularity of Cat's on the internet. An exhibition at the New York City Museum of the moving image examined the phenomenon, highlighting Pusheen alongside other celebrity cats such as Grumpy cat and Oil Bub. The Facebook page for Pusheen has over 9.4 million fans as of July 2017. The brand has expanded with merchandise including an app. Pusheen has expanded and moved beyond just Facebook and now takes part in multiple social media platforms such as: Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. This cartoon cat also has many fan pages within the platforms and blogs dedicated to celebrating the comic. Its popularity has even allowed the Pusheen Corp to create an app that is an expansion of their sticker collection that started on Facebook. Within each social media account that is officially owned by the creators of Pusheen the cat has gained over a million followers and counting. Due to this rise in popularity the company has started releasing GIFs on their website several times a month.

The Pusheen corporation started selling Pusheen merchandise after the popularity of the cat took off in July 2010. The first Pusheen merchandising was sold on the Everyday Cute website as a charm keychain, and necklace. From there the Merchandising expanded and now Pusheen Corp have teamed up with many brands to create and sell merchandise in stores such as Barnes & Noble, Hot Topic, and Petco. They have even expanded their merchandising to the website Hey Chickadee with merchandise collections dedicated to the cartoon cat, which range from plush toys by manufacturer Gund, clothing, accessories, knick-knacks, and much more. They even have a quarterly subscription box (which is a popular trend within online shopping) that is filled with Pusheen Products.

Thanks Wikipedia <3
~Jay

The final chapter of REvival will be done in one whole week and the prologue will be released the week after. Here's even better news!! The final chapter will have all 3 parts released between the 15th to the 19th of February along with the Epilogue right after!! I have been working on this singular book since 2017 and I'm so proud and excited to say that I have reached the end of THIS book!
Now, what does this mean for Steve and the gang? If you are still very much interested in the story you will have to wait further down the year when I publish the next volume of his story in, Resident Evil: Rekindle. That being said, REkindle will be the last story I write Involving Steve. His conclusion will be met at the end of the next book I'm writing.
When REvival has met its Epilogue, I will be going on a break to continue the storyboard of the next book. Expect me to return sometime by the end of the Summer in 2021 with REkindle.

I have more surprises too!!
\,,/(>.<)\,,/
My brother and I had been storyboarding another Resident Evil project that could fit into the canon somewhere between RE5 and RE7 involving Jill and what she had been doing in that small span of years. We both agreed that that story would fit better in the design of a comic or webcomic.
If any artists out there (or if you have a friend who is an artist) above the age of 18 wishes to make a comic series with me and my brother, Please contact me any way you can. I still use my Wattpad so you can contact me there or locate my email. My twitter is also @NoahDeanishappy you can message me there as well. I'll give you my discord and will discuss it further then. Eventually, I would be willing to pay a sum of money after negotiating the terms of service.


I can't thank you all enough for being apart of this small adventure that I have been writing for nearly half a decade. let's hope that REkindle will not take as long as this one did, considering that my motivation for this story has drastically risen from when I was writing it on Wattpad. I hope to see all of you readers in the next book!

THANK YOU!!!

Fifteen years after the Rockfort island incident, Steve awoke with no memories of the incident and in an Umbrella facility. New friends along with old, face the crisis of their pasts and fight for their future.

Luckily, Luna was right. The old boss was slightly dissatisfied about Lanni involving the police. However, Lanni had retrieved and submitted more evidence aside from the recording. Since there was sufficient irrefutable proof, the man would be given the death penalty, so he didn't have much to complain about. 
Hence, he had Flynn send Xia Hanchen back to B City. 
The man and his daughters were so happy to reunite that they spent a whole week celebrating. 
Madam Jiang decided to remain silent about Lanni's alias. If everyone found out that it was a fake identity, she would handle the matter. If no one bothered about it, it would be the best outcome. 
A few weeks later, on 19th December,Xing Han was sentenced to death while all his accomplices—including Old Master Feng and Feng Ci—were sentenced to 20 years in prison. 
__
20th December. 
Lanni called Xiehan over to have a few drinks together. 
"I've gotten quite used to this apartment. I don't know whether or not I should go back home." She sighed, massaging a glass of red wine in her hand. 
"You can stay if you want to, you know." He ran his thumb against her cheek. "It's all up to you. You can occasionally pay aunty a visit or go home for dinner a few times every week, but stay here for the most part." 
"It's actually nice to be in my own apartment." She smiled. "But I can't help feeling that something is missing." 
Xiehan thought about it for a moment. "You had been acting as someone else for such a long time. Perhaps you're still finding it hard to revert back to your true self." 
She couldn't deny that, especially since for some reason, she had not dyed her hair back to black. She preferred the ashen blonde look even though she looked prettier with her original color. 
Xiehan could pretty much make a guess but to avoid making her feel pressured, he remained silent about it to let her figure it out on her own. 
When Lanni gave Li Yuming a call and told her about her decision to remain in her apartment, the latter had nothing against her decision and insisted on sending over a team of bodyguards. Since it was for her own safety, Lanni didn't reject them. She hung up the call after making some small talk with her mother for a while. 
"I feel like she's becoming easier to converse with lately." She said through a chuckle as she connected her phone to the charging cable. 
Xiehan raised an eyebrow at her. "Perhaps she's just starting to accept the fact that her baby is all grown up and can make her own decisions." 
Lanni slotted herself next to him with a laugh. "Now that you mention that. Why is it usually hard for mothers to accept that their daughters are growing up?" 
Xiehan scratched his chin when he recalled how his sister had been pampered even when she was an adult. If she made a mistake, their parents would say something about her being young and not knowing what she was doing. It had taken a rude awakening to make them know that they were responsible for ruining her life by indulging her too much. On the other hand, it had been different for him. He had been expected to be excellent, mature and flawless since he was a little boy. He had barely been allowed to be like other kids. Even the friends he hung out with had to be from families his parents considered 'good enough'. "It's different for sons, I guess." 
Lanni frowned. She knew about his childhood, so she was aware that if Xiehan's aunt didn't take him away, his parents might have just brought him up into a robot. "If I ever have a child, whether it's a son or a daughter, I'll let him enjoy his childhood. I mean, everyone wants his child to be the best, but we can't just force them to live the kind of life they don't want." 
He pulled her into his embrace with a smile. "You would make an excellent mother. Why don't we talk about making some?" 
"You hooligan! I didn't say I wanted kids!" She wriggled out of his embrace and fled to the kitchen. Discussing such a topic with a man was dangerous!" 
The man laughed at how scared she looked. Of course, he was just teasing her. 
_ 
Meanwhile. 
With Jiang Xingyu's help, Moonlight Studios had successfully entered the software industry. 
They had successfully hired several comic artists, most of whom were from Star Art International. Hence, the first application—XiaYu Comics—had been released. Within just a few days, the app had tens of thousands of downloads, thousands of positive reviews and from the looks of things, it wouldn't be long before they regained the funds they had used in creation and marketing and started earning profit. 
Luna cheerfully read through the statistics. "As expected, your comic is such a hit!" She chirped. 
They had used the first page and synopsis of Cheng Yu's comic to market the app and it drew in new users like a vortex! 
Cheng Yu was flattered. "Luna, you are exaggerating. The app is already so great that no matter what comic was used, it would still gain millions of new users." 
Luna had a pleased smile on her face as she took up her Ipad to continue reading the comic. It was not just because Cheng Yu was her friend that she was reading it. The comic, "Falling in love with a heartless devil", was so addictive that she could barely put her Ipad down. The concept of the story was original and the art was perfect. It was currently the most popular comic on the app with readers always bugging her for the next update. 
Talking of the next update, Cheng Yu yawned and stretched her limbs. "I'll go and take a nap now. When I wake up, I'll start drawing the next episode." 
"Go ahead." Luna smiled. Finally, they both had a source of income. It had jist happened at the right time since Cheng Yu's training period at Star Art International was drawing to a close. The girl would have more time to focus on her comics and the studio. 


"Little troubleshooter, we meet again. If you are still thinking of trying to get away, you better give up that silly idea." Ji Xiehan said, pinning her against the wall.

 Li Lanni pushed her fists against his chest. "Is this how you say ‘Hi’ to all your interviewers, Mr. Ji?" 

"There is no interviewer and certainly no interviewee." The man grinned devilishly. "There is only a husband and a wife. My darling, how are you going to compensate for all the emotional damage you caused me by slipping away?" 

"What?" Heavens... just what had she gotten herself into? 

…..

 Her life almost came to an end because of a tragic accident but instead, she lost her memory. Who would have thought that just when she was starting to get used to her new life, she would get trapped in a whirlwind engagement? 

Out of all kinds of injustice fate could do to her, why did her fiancé have to be that white-haired pervert?! 

"You better not fall in love with me!" she snarled at the man grinning before her. 

Ji Xiehan's smile deepened. "Are you... kidding me? Why would I fall in love with you?" 

Li Lanni: "You better mark your words." 

The man grinned and helplessly shook his head, how could he fall in love with the woman he was already in love with? Taking up the challenge to crawl into her heart, Ji Xiehan promised himself to always treat her well and love her. 

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